Will Marshall
Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please proceed.
I would say a few things, some of the headwinds we saw are macro driven, like in the agriculture market, which where we saw some headwinds, that is macro-driven, and so, when that ends, but I also think that we are continuing to see deals -- I mentioned some of the deals that we did on the commercial side, and as Ashley mentioned, we have a lot of opportunities to make tooling and simplified ability to access that. We launched the Sentinel Hub, a platform that enables low-touch access, so that people have -- and tools so that they can start building products and services and we're working closely with partners that have good solutions for specific vertical markets. I'll just add finally, that just like in the -- I mentioned earlier in the government sector, AI is a strong tailwind, I think the same is true here, it's going to help a lot, and it's because AI helps skip a bunch of steps in getting to answers. So you can query (ph) getting us closer to the vision that I had launched in TED (ph) Talk in 2018, six years ago -- five or six years ago, which spoke about this queryable (ph) Earth and that's a bit of an ultimate vision here, that any commercial client could ask any question of the data, just like you can now ask questions about text of the internet with ChatGPT 4, that queryable vision is becoming closer to reality with these large language models, and we're really seeing that tick up. You'll note that a number of big companies, from Microsoft to Google to others, are releasing these multimodal large language models, which is a step from them treating just text on the internet to also treating images and videos and audio track and that plays to our strength enormously because we have this massive proprietary archive of imagery data. So as those models get better at dealing with the imagery and understanding the context in those images, the faster we can leverage that to then provide answers to commercial clients who don't have, big geospatial expertise. So we really -- again, believe overall in the long term, in the commercial market, it's a huge opportunity to go after.